| croquer |
| 1. v. to crunch | |
| 2. v. (colloquial) to waste, squander (money etc.) | |
| 3. v. to sketch, outline | |
| des |
| 1. art. plural of un | |
| 2. art. plural of une | |
| 3. art. plural of du | |
| 4. art. plural of de la | |
| 5. art. plural of de l' | |
| 6. contraction. contraction of de les (of the, from the, some) | |
| de |
| 1. prep. of (expresses belonging) | |
| Paris est la capitale de la France. - Paris is the capital of France. | |
| 2. prep. of (used to express property or association) | |
| Œuvres de Fermat - Fermat’s Works | |
| Elle est la femme de mon ami. - She is my friend’s wife. | |
| le voisin de Gabriel - Gabriel's neighbor | |
| 3. prep. from (used to indicate origin) | |
| Elle vient de France. - She comes from France. | |
| Êtes-vous de Suisse ? - Are you from Switzerland? | |
| Ce fromage vient d’Espagne. - This cheese is from Spain. | |
| C’est de l’ouest de la France. - It’s from the west of France. | |
| Le train va de Paris à Bordeaux. - The train goes from Paris to Bordeaux. | |
| 4. prep. of (indicates an amount) | |
| 5 kilos de pommes. - 5 kilograms of apples. | |
| Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
| Une portion de frites - A portion of fries | |
| 5. prep. used attributively, often translated into English as a compound word | |
| Un jus de pomme - Apple juice | |
| Un verre de vin - A glass of wine | |
| Une boîte de nuit - A nightclub | |
| Un chien de garde - A guarddog | |
| Une voiture de sport - A sportscar | |
| Un stade de football - A football stadium | |
| 6. prep. from (used to indicate the start of a time or range) | |
| De 9:00 à 11:00 je ne serai pas libre. - From 9 to 11 I won’t be free. | |
| Je travaille de huit heures à midi. - I work from 8 o'clock to noon. | |
| un groupe de cinq à huit personnes - a group of from five to eight people | |
| 7. prep. used after certain verbs before an infinitive, often translated into English as a gerund or an infinitive | |
| J’ai arrêté de fumer. - I stopped smoking. | |
| Il continue de m’embêter. - He keeps annoying me. | |
| Elle m’a dit de venir. - She told me to come. | |
| Nous vous exhortons de venir. - We urge you to come. | |
| 8. prep. by (indicates the amount of change) | |
| Boire trois tasses par jour réduirait de 20 % les risques de contracter une maladie. - Drinking three cups a day would reduce the risks of catching an illness by 20%. | |
| 9. art. Used in the plural with prepositioned adjectives. | |
| Ce sont de bons enfants. - They are good children. | |
| Il y a d’autres exemples. - There are other examples. | |
| 10. art. Used in negated sentences with the grammatical object. | |
| Elle n’a pas de mère. - She doesn’t have a mother. | |
| Il ne mange pas de viande. - He doesn’t eat meat. | |
| Il n’y a pas de problèmes. - There are no problems. | |
| 11. n-f. abbreviation of dame | |
| les |
| 1. art. plural of le: the | |
| 2. art. plural of la: the | |
| 3. pron. plural of le: them | |
| 4. pron. plural of la: them | |
| de l' |
| 1. art. some; the singular prevocalic partitive article | |
| Voudriez-vous de l’ail ? - Would you like some garlic? | |
| pralines |
| 1. v. second-person singular present of praliner | |
| praliner |
| 1. v. to coat with caramelized sugar | |
| Praliner de la fleur d’orange. | |
| 2. v. to coat young roots with a fertilized mud (called pralin) prior to plantation | |
| J'ai soigneusement praliné mes rosiers. | |
| une |
| 1. num. feminine singular of un | |
| 2. art. a / an (feminine indefinite article) | |
| 3. n-f. front page (of a publication) | |
| Pomme |
| 1. Proper noun. (rare) given name, female | |
| 2. Proper noun. ====Notes==== | |
| 3. Proper noun. In France in , Pomme was the 2745th most popular given name, with 99 people. | |
| 4. n-f. apple (fruit) | |
| manger une pomme - eat an apple | |
| la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre - the apple never falls far from the tree | |
| 5. n-f. any of several objects of approximately the same shape and size | |
| 6. n-f. the faucet or nozzle of a watering can or showerhead | |
| la pomme d’arrosoir - the nozzle of a watering can | |
| 7. n-f. (architecture) a decorative motif in the shape of an apple | |
| 8. n-f. (botany) the fruit part of several vegetables, such as the heart of a cabbage or lettuce | |
| pomme épineuse - jimsonweed | |
| 9. n-f. (colloquial) the head or face | |
| 10. n-f. (colloquial) ninny, nitwit, idiot | |
| C’est la reine des pommes ! - She's the queen of nutters! | |
| 11. n-f. (by ellipsis) potato (ng, from pomme de terre) | |
| 12. n-f. (figuratively) crown, prize, especially in regards to beauty (ng, from the association with the Judgment of Paris) | |
| Elle mérite la pomme. - She's a real beaut. | |
| 13. n-f. (Canada, pejorative, offensive) an Amerindian person considered to have assimilated into White society | |
| 14. v. first-person singular present of pommer | |
| 15. v. second-person singular present imperative of pommer | |
| 16. v. third-person singular present of pommer | |
| pommer |
| 1. v. (of vegetables, especially cabbage and lettuce) to develop a fruit | |
